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Portrait image of Dan Turèll Photo: Peder Bundgaard

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Turèll, Dan

Danish novelist and poet who was something as unusual as a well-respected and genuinely popular cultural figure. He was born in Copenhagen as Dan Turèll-Jensen, the oldest of five siblings. When he was nine years old the family moved to the suburb of Vangede where he grew up. In connection with this, the family 1956 shortened the surname to Turèll. He learned to read before he started school, b...

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Paul Chavesse

Gender: Male

Middle-aged professor who, thanks to his academic merits and his comprehensive language skills, becomes involved as an agent for the extremely secret British security service The Bureau. Paul Chavasse has, says author Martin Fallon (pseudonym for Henry Patterson), an everyday appearance with black hair and high cheekbones. He is a gentleman – and a bit shy with women.

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